eric_marsh wrote:My two favorites fell off the bottom in the previous vote so I had to vote for my third favorite. I went with Teddy Bears just because it was so creative and unique. I'm really surprised to see that Dinosaurs is trailing tho.

I'm not surprised, but only because all of the choices are excellent stories, and it's coming down to personal taste, and what left the strongest impressions in the most listeners.

It's not like the MBDM where some entrants are worthy and noble, and others are diabolically evil. All five stories are honored by making this list, and I'll be happy for whoever gets to put the Sacred Chalice of Glory on their mantle this year.

tbaker2500 wrote:And frankly, that doesn't seem the type of story that makes the Drabblecast unique.

In full agreement, thanks for posting this. I didn't dislike any of the stories, but three of the 5 were less memorable for me. They reminded me why I hardly update my Pseudopod feed.

I admit horror is just not a genre I'm particularity drawn to. I'm not a delicate flower, I just find a lot of the plots tiresome and predicable. I didn't dig Clown Eggs like you guys all did. Annabelle's Alphabet was fun as all Pratt stories, and while I see it as a fantasy, it certainly had a significant horror element to it too, didn't it?

You can't keep a soul in a box. You gotta wear it proud. It's gotta be yours, not someone else's. -Sing

I like the whole spectrum from goofy oddball stories like "Toast" to the deep and heavy stuff, like this weeks story. Drabblecast has had a tradition for great variety, and it seems that variety is what I think of as defining the weekly audio magazine we are all codependent on.

That being said, my favorite story "Toast" didn't make the final five. Of the past year, for me, that one was the most whimsically charming of them all, but ya gotta go with something off the top five.

ROU Killing Time wrote:I like the whole spectrum from goofy oddball stories like "Toast" to the deep and heavy stuff, like this weeks story. Drabblecast has had a tradition for great variety, and it seems that variety is what I think of as defining the weekly audio magazine we are all codependent on.

That being said, my favorite story "Toast" didn't make the final five. Of the past year, for me, that one was the most whimsically charming of them all, but ya gotta go with something off the top five.

Oh man, I so forgot about "Toast". That story was awesome. I keep thinking it was on Podcastle for some reason. Despite the complete list of stories posted when the voting started.

ROU Killing Time wrote:That being said, my favorite story "Toast" didn't make the final five. Of the past year, for me, that one was the most whimsically charming of them all, but ya gotta go with something off the top five.

I gotta go with Clown Eggs. In fact, I joined the forum just to vote for it! Along with Paul Berger's "The Watching People" on Escape Pod in 2007, Jay Lake's little fable was one of the most memorable stories I've heard in the last couple of years.

I really didn't like the Teddy Bear thing or the Dinosaurs. They both seemed like good ideas done badly. Especially the bears.

Notice the lawyer goes for the story with the personal injury in it. Clown Eggs just reeks of justice, while Dinos totally lacks jurisdiction, and Teddy Bears would consume the witnesses.Chrone 2009, however, is capable of reprioritization, and a veritable quantized Hammurabi.His problem? He doesn't Habeus a Corpus.

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Maybe Norm can pitch an amalgam of the two current leading stories to the networks. Call it "BP and the Bears." It might make for a decent TV series, no? Maybe if they used a Teamsters theme and employed at least one buxom young starlet with acting skills equal to Babel's physical dimensions...call her "Stacks" or something.

internalogic wrote:haha. I just realized that I was reading the episode numbers as the number of votes. ('uhhhh......wait a second!') Where is everybody?!

Well, I'm just one voter, but I was holding off because I couldn't decide between Dinosaurs and Alphabet. In the end, I had to go with Dinosaurs. That was a pretty hard choice for me and I don't think I can explain why I ended up going that way.